I was working on some stuff on my PC and stepped away for a bit, and on returning noticed notifications on it that some files had been downloaded via KDE Connect from my phone. I was using my phone at the time, and didn’t send the files.

I know that you can quietly download files from a phone with its paired device (i.e. no notification on the phone, nor prompting permission) from allowed directories, but these files weren’t from those directories, so…What may have happened here?

Glitched notifications, or something else?

Also, the downloaded files weren’t anywhere on my PC, so… 😕

edit:
I found an issue report I think may be what I was seeing: KDE Connect spams the desktop with a torrent of old notifications.

  • Bro666@lemmy.kde.socialM
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    2 months ago

    Are you sure you were not seeing only notifications from your phone mirrored onto your desktop and not actual downloads? Bear in mind that is one of KDE Connect’s features, showing notifications on the desktop of stuff happening on the phone. It doesn’t mean that what the notification is telling you is happening on the desktop.